An issue I had with Ubuntu was getting an operating system to work (as in Windows XP) virtually. Try as I might, I just couldn’t get it to work properly. With Mint I was able to with VirtualBox. It runs properly, the sound works, the video performance is on par with virtual environments under Windows and moreover the process was easy.
VirtualBox is not a Mint-only thing, but within Mint there’s no fuss, no muss, no command line stuff. Just run it and go. See video below for more details.
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Wow, XP started up /really/ fast.
But Rich, I have to ask, what sort of hardware do you have? I haven’t tried VirtualBox in Mint, but in Ubuntu I did get XP to run, albeit very slowly. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro P100 laptop, about a year or two old now, I think, with Duo Core processors.
Anyway, I’m really liking your Linux Mint articles, keep it up!
-Vert
I have an intel Duo Core with 2GB of RAM on-board. The video card is an nVidia with 256MB on-board.
With Ubuntu I could never get a virtual environment running correctly. In the super-rare instance (I think only once) it did work it still wasn’t 100%. The performance was dog-slow and the network and sound didn’t work.
VirtualBox is by far the better choice whether using Mint or Ubuntu, hands down.